Indeed,
the reverse may be true given the contempt the central government has shown to
the drivers by going ahead with the rate hike and the fact that the number of
arrests is still small, enough to infuriate but hardly enough to dissuade many
drivers, especially as decisions about arrests appear to remain decentralized (http://svpressa.ru/society/article/170507/).

Subsequent reporting suggests that in Daghestan, the authorities have begun a far larger crackdown, including widespread arrests, in what has been one of the most active centers of the strike and where the drivers have already articulated political demands against the increasingly unpopular and isolated republic leadership (youtube.com/watch?v=U4WNJ2-LFJY&feature=share).